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Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives
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This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of 'factuality' versus 'fictivity'. None of the authors set out to write 'fiction'; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matter of historical record; but their meaning was geared both to contemporary and to general concerns. The fact of telling them is part and parcel of the historian's task; the means of telling them has to do with the historian's choice of style; and style is all-important in conveying meaning. Were these accounts not considered 'true', the purpose behind their telling and the meaning they convey, would, arguably, be lost; but were they not told in the most effective manner, their meaning might not be clearly grasped.
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Stephan Conermann: On the Art of Writing History in Mamluk Times
- Body
- Yehoshua Frenkel: Mamlūk Historiography Revisited: Narratological Perspectives in Damascene Chronicles
- Mohammad Gharaibeh: Narrative Strategies in Biographical Dictionaries: The ad-Durar al-Kāmina of Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī – a case study
- Li Guo: Ibn Iyās, the Poet: The Literary Profile of a Mamluk Historian
- Amalia Levanoni: Lachrymose behavior in Mamluk Chronicles: A Narratological Technique
- Amir Mazor: The Topos of Predicting the Future in Early Mamluk Historiography
- Linda Northrup: Documents as Literary Texts: Mamluk Historiography Revisited
- Irmeli Perho: Ibn Taghrībirdī’s Stories
- Carl Petry: Gendered Nuances in Historiographical Discourses of the Mamluk Period: Muted Praise? Veiled Trivialization? Enigmatic Transgressions?
- Boaz Shoshan: Ibn Zunbul on the Ottoman Conquest of Syria and Egypt
- Jo Van Steenbergen: Al-Maqrīzī’s History of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian Narrative Construction: towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning
- Torsten Wollina: The Changing Legacy of a Sufi Shaykh: Narrative Constructions in Diaries, Chronicles, and Biographies (15th–17th Centuries)
- Authors